Redcoat

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Redcoat.
Watson.

Redcoat is the 2nd episode in season 1 of the American TV series Watson aired on 16 february 2025 on CBS, starring Morris Chestnut as Dr. Watson. 43 min.

Revolutionary War reenactor and entrepreneur Andrew Tanner is shot in the head at home. He survives with a bullet lodged in his brain but wakes up speaking with a Scottish accent and insisting he is 18th-century officer Patrick Ferguson. At the Holmes Clinic, Watson turns the case into a lesson in detective work: Stephens Croft spots symptoms resembling Huntington's disease from Tanner's online videos, while Dr. Sasha Lubbock and Watson's uncover clues that the break-in was staged, leading the team to realize Tanner is faking his identity to justify an insanity narrative and suicide so his family can collect life insurance after his planned "murder" went wrong. When Tanner attempts to kill himself from the hospital's roof, Watson notices additional neurological signs and reclassifies his condition as Wilson's disease, a similar but actually treatable disorder, giving Tanner and his family a real chance at survival, while Dr. Ingrid Derian persuades estranged former colleague Dr. Isaac Niles to perform the high-risk surgery to remove the bullet from Tanner's head, prompting him to warn Mary not to trust Ingrid. In the background, Watson jealously snoops on who his ex-wife Mary might be dating (only to find "Gummi" is just the HR head), and Shinwell is quietly approached by Moriarty's agent (rep) and coerced into swapping Watson's medication for an identical-looking set of pills, signalling that Moriarty's long game around the clinic has already begun.


References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories

  • "Shinwell Johnson" : He was a former criminal allied to Sherlock Holmes to provide information from among the underworld. He appeared only in this story (The Illustrious Client, 1924).
  • "Dr. Mary Morstan" : Mary Morstan was the first wife of Dr. Watson but she was not a doctor (The Sign of Four, 1890).
  • "The Irregulars" : The Baker Street Irregulars were street urchins working for Sherlock Holmes (The Sign of Four, 1890).
  • "James Moriarty" : Professor James Moriarty was the arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes (The Final Problem, 1893).


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Cast


Crew

  • Director : Larry Teng
  • Screenplay : Craig Sweeny
  • Executive Producer : Morris Chestnut, Aaron Kaplan, Sharon Moalem, Erin Moffitt, Brian Morewitz, Sallie Patrick, Craig Sweeny, Larry Teng
  • Producers : Scott Graham, Geoffrey Hemwall, Aren Ophoff
  • Music : Paul Leonard-Morgan



  1. ↑ Peter Mark Kendall = playing both roles of Adam & Stephens Croft (acting + speaking). Andrew Dobbie & Riley Orr = physical doubles used to make the twin scenes possible.
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